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Negotiators from both sides posed for a photo after reaching an agreement early Thursday morning.
Tentative BDS agreement reached
By Alex Ulmer
Senior Staf f Writer
The University and Dining Ser-
vices workers reached a tentative
agreement around 2 a.m. Thursday
after days of intense negotiations
— though ratification of the settle-
ment remains contingent on an
employee vote today.
Neither party would discuss
the specifics of the settlement
ahead of the vote, but members
of the workers’ union’s bargaining
committee said they would be rec-
ommending that Dining Services
employees ratify the agreement.
“It’s a total settlement,” said
Joseph Sarno ’91, the University’s
chief negotiator and director of la-
Two Brown profs make a splash in moon water research
Pieters-led team
makes surprise find
with lunar scan
By Monique Vernon
Staff Writer
Water molecules have been found on
the moon by a research team headed
by Professor of Geology Carle Pi-
eters. But like many momentous
scientific advances, the discovery
was made almost by accident.
“You don’t expect any water on
the moon,” Pieters said, and neither
did her research team, which was
studying lunar mineralogy. But when
the team happened upon indications
of water that at first confused them,
they investigated further and discov-
ered they were genuine.
“When our team saw a clear
signature of water on the surface,
we thought it was wrong,” Pieters
said.
After months of probing and test-
ing to try to resolve the disparity, the
team later concluded that there are
molecules of water and hydroxyl
— a functional group consisting
of hydrogen and oxygen — on the
moon’s surface.
The team’s conclusion appeared
in an issue of the journal Science
alongside two other articles that con-
inside
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bor and employee relations. “Now
they need to get an agreement
from their party.”
Previous rounds of negotia-
tions failed to secure an agree-
ment, chiefly due to divergences
over proposed changes to health
care premium payments, retire-
ment benefits for future hires and
wage increases. The contentions
were amplified by the University’s
bruised financial situation, which
Sarno said was a “big factor.”
The seven members of the bar-
gaining committee will “strongly”
recommend that workers ratify
the settlement during two meet-
ings today, scheduled between
employee shifts, said Roxana Ri-
vera, the chief negotiator for the
curred with Pieters’s findings. One
research group’s instrument was on
its way to Saturn and found similar
readings using their spectrometer,
while the other’s was on its way to
a comet.
When the Indian Space Research
Organization offered to carry foreign
instruments on their Chandrayaan-1
spacecraft, Pieters and her team
went to work on forming a detailed
proposal to NASA to acquire funding
to construct the instrument, known
as the Moon Mineralogy Mapper,
or M3. The project was accepted
by NASA and the ISRO, and the In-
dian spacecraft containing the M3
launched successfully in October
2008.
With 10 months of data from the
craft, the team was able to observe
the water and hydroxyl molecules
with a “unique detection using spec-
troscopy,” Pieters said.
“It is such a fantastic look at the
way science works in the real world,”
said Postdoctoral Research Associ-
ate in Geological Sciences Jeff Net-
tles. As a co-author of the Science
paper, his role during the mission
was to use software that processes
and analyzes geospatial imagery to
help analyze the surface.
After the team detected spectra
and mapped them through the use of
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Notice it or not, an
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195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Alex Ulmer / Herald
Service Employees International
Union, Local 615, which repre-
sents the nearly 200 Dining Ser-
vices employees.
“There was a time we had noth-
ing to recommend to the mem-
bers,” said Rabbit Hoffinger, first
cook at the Sharpe Refectory and a
member of bargaining committee.
“To say that we got this at the mid-
night hour is to understate it.”
Negotiations to replace the
already-extended contract be-
gan Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., ac-
cording to union of ficials, and
an agreement was reached more
than 14 hours later. Members of
the bargaining committee added
that they were granted today off
from work.
With NASA’s help, Professor of Geology Peter Schultz smashed a rocket into the moon, hoping to find water.
NASA mission a smashing success for Schultz
By ana alvarez
Contributing Writer
A NASA spacecraft slammed into
the moon early last Friday morning,
exploding into a cloud of debris —
and Professor of Geology Peter
Schulz was elated.
The rocket’s mission — to
search for signs of water in a cra-
ter near the moon’s south pole by
analyzing the debris produced in
Budget groups begin
work across University
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staf f Writer
The University hopes to identify
approximately half of $30 million
in necessary budget cuts this fall
through the work of 12 recently
formed subgroups of the Organi-
zational Review Committee, accord-
ing to executive vice president for
finance and administration Beppie
Huidekoper.
These subgroups, which include
faculty, staff and students, each met
independently for the first time Oct.
8, and are scheduled to come up
with $14 million in recommended
cuts, Huidekoper said. The ORC will
propose a full $30 million in cuts to
the Corporation at the meeting in
February, she said, when the Uni-
versity’s highest governing body
will approve the budget for the 12
months beginning July 2010.
The subcommittees are part of
the University’s latest efforts to
trim down the annual budget after
the endowment — a key source of
annual revenue — lost nearly $740
million during last year’s financial
the crash — was a “complete suc-
cess,” said Schultz, a co-investigator
on the project.
The objective of the Lunar Cra-
ter Observing and Sensing Satel-
lite, or LCROSS, mission was to
determine if the make-up of the
debris suggest a substantial amount
of water is present in the crater,
Schultz said.
If so, lunar mining stations could
provide future water resources for
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crisis.
“There’s pretty much no part
of the University that is not ad-
dressed,” Huidekoper said of the
subcommittees’ focuses, adding
that the current economic situa-
tion has necessitated organizational
changes that are “deeper” and that
more directly address the Univer-
sity’s efficiency.
The $14 million figure was cho-
sen to encourage the subgroups
to come up with aggressive ideas
for deficit reductions, Huidekoper
said. Administrators will inform the
Corporation about the formation of
these review teams when the body
convenes this weekend.
“We are asking them to brain-
storm and think creatively,” she
said. “There’s no magic and no
science.”
The 12 subcommittees — among
them groups charged with oversee-
ing academic departments, facili-
ties, athletics, events management,
librar y operations and student
ser vices — will develop recom-
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Courtesy of J.P. Wiens / NASA Ames
Earth, he said.
Schultz is currently at NASA’s
Ames Research Center in Califor-
nia, studying the data gathered
from Friday’s impact. NASA will
release initial conclusions soon, but
the official scientific results of the
mission will not be released until
the American Geophysical Union’s
Fall Meeting in December.
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C ampus N EWS “I mean, how is that not fun?”

— Li Pallas, an assistant curator of a storefront art display, on the creation

Brown prof joins

group of elite scholars
By Julia Kim
Contributing Writer
David Konstan, professor of clas-
sics and comparative literature, was
inducted into the prestigious Ameri-
can Academy of Arts and Sciences
this past weekend, alongside such
luminaries as former Secretary of
State Colin Powell, former South
African President Nelson Mandela
and Academy Award-winning actor
Dustin Hoffman P’09.
The AAAS, which was founded
in 1780 as a forum for collaboration
among the nation’s elite scholars,
leaders, professionals and artists,
annually honors “men and women
of exceptional achievement” with
election into its membership. Kon-
stan was one of 212 new fellows and
19 Foreign Honorary Members in-
ducted Saturday.
Induction into the AAAS “marks
the highest level of recognition in
the arts and sciences,” said Profes-
sor of History and Classics John
Bodel, who has worked with Kon-
stan since 1984.
“It’s a great honor,” Konstan said.
“I was very moved.”
His election as an AAAS mem-
ber is the latest of many honors
for Konstan, who has accumulated
many awards and distinctions for
his work during his more than 40
Hannah Moser / Herald
years as a professor, scholar and Put your hand on this unremarkable-looking outline and you’ll soon see yourself displayed on a screen behind
writer. Konstan’s research focuses the glass. The Olneyville storefront is known as the Dirt Palace, a “feminist art collective.”
on ancient Greek and Latin literature
and philosophy, and recently has

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A lens into Olneyville’s community
By Hannah Moser
Senior Staff Writer
Two large display windows look out
onto Olneyville Square from a red
brick building. It used to be a public
library, but the building has since
been transformed into Dirt Palace,
a self-described “feminist art collec-
tive.”
With the display’s nondescript
black backdrop and the glare on the
case’s glass, distracted passersby
might walk past totally oblivious to
the screen inside. The changing im-
ages on the screen zoom in, Google-
Maps style, on Dirt Palace’s location
on the western side of Providence.
The screen flashes images of people
on a sidewalk, peering into a window.
Some look quizzical, and others pose
with friends, realizing that the camera
Julia Kim / Herald is looking at them from behind the
David Konstan, professor of classics and comparative literature. glass.
All these participants have placed
their hands inside the white outline
sudoku of a hand, triggering a sensor behind
the glass. The camera flashes, and
a few seconds later they are on the
screen — and a new part of Dirt Pal-
ace’s most recent art installment in its
Storefront Window Gallery.
Dirt Palace’s seven members each
have studio space in the building for
their artwork, a range of media that in-
cludes printmaking, film, lace making,
writing, puppetry and painting. Each
month they select an artist, usually
local, to be featured in the gallery.
The window display has been ac-
tive since the collective was founded
in 2000. Dirt Palace looks for art they
FEATURE
think will be relevant and fun for its
Olneyville audience, said Li Pallas,
who helps curate the display. Past
displays include a constantly moving
flying brain and a “fantasy world” that
presents liberation as a theme.
“I mean, how is that not fun?” Pal-
las said.
Pallas said the collective seeks
to bring “art into a community that
might be otherwise disadvantaged.”
She has a “personal bent” for displays
that inspire relationships and com-
munity, she said.
This month features the work
of Sarah Bearse, a local installation
artist.
Bearse adapted her installation
from similar pieces she had previ-
ously displayed in Boston’s City Hall
and a Harvard art gallery. While the
camera in the Olneyville display re-
sponds to movement — a hand in
front of the sensor — the camera in
the city hall installation responded
to noise at a certain volume, Pallas
said. Loud voices triggered the cam-
era, which then took a snapshot of
the speaker and projected it onto the
screen.
The installation “instantly made
people feel so violated,” Pallas said,
that it was altered after 48 hours to no
longer include the still shots.
Bearse’s project was partly a re-
action to a culture in which unprec-
edented amounts of personal informa-
tion are made public on Web sites like
Facebook and MySpace, Pallas said.
The display toys with the concept of
“playing with these public and private
spaces,” she said.
But the project is structured dif-
ferently in Olneyville than in Boston,
since many of the people getting their
picture taken put themselves inten-
tionally in front of the lens.
“It ends up showcasing our neigh-
bors,” Pallas said. “I feel like it’s for
the community here more than any-
one else.”

Budget committees roll up their sleeves

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mendations for deficit reductions
through a combination of savings
and strengthening revenue streams,
Huidekoper said.
Although the groups consist
mostly of faculty, students and staff,
Huidekoper said the subcommit-
tee leaders, which include many of
to President Ruth Simmons and the
Corporation for final decisions re-
garding budget reductions.
“At this point, they’re trying to
understand what their scope is,”
Huidekoper said. “It’s going to
take a lot of time.” It is too soon
to speculate on any proposals, she
said, adding that the teams are still
in a formative position.
with “ways to support the Univer-
sity more efficiently and ensure a
greater quality.”
During her group’s first meeting,
she said, the team briefly discussed
“what we thought success and fail-
ure would look like in the process”
to more successfully select “stake-
holders” to aid in enacting their
proposed deficit-reduction plans.

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Thursday, October 15, 2009
C ampus N EWS
U. scores another high grade for ‘sustainability’ Moon
By Emily Kirkland
Contributing Writer
For the second year in a row, Brown
has received an A- on the College
Sustainability Report Card, which
compares the environmental prac-
tices of 300 colleges and universities
nationwide.
The 2010 report, which was re-
leased last week by the Sustainable
Endowments Institute and refers to
the year ending July 2009, places
Brown among the top 23 schools in
the country for sustainability.
Brown earned straight As in
seven categories, including green
building, investment priorities and
“food and recycling.” The Commu-
nity Harvest Program, LEED Silver
buildings and greenhouse gas reduc-
tions were highlighted as examples
of demonstrated leadership. Brown
earned only two Bs, one for Adminis-
tration and the other for Endowment
Transparency.
“This is nice validation,” said Kai
Morell ’11, a leader of EcoReps, a
student group focused on environ-
mental initiatives.
“It’s nice to have maintained our
grade,” said Christopher Powell,
director of sustainable energy and
environmental initiatives.
While the University’s overall
grade held steady at an A-, its grades
in individual categories improved.
The biggest jump was in the Climate
Change and Energy category, where
last year’s B became an A.
The report cited the University’s
Providence author finds
niche in science writing
By Chelsea Xu
Contributing Writer
“At Classical, they used to call me
the eternal freshman — and in
high school that wasn’t entirely
a compliment,” writer Jonathan
Weiner told a Salomon 101 crowd
of community members and a
smattering of students Wednes-
day night.
Author of “The Beak of the
Finch: A Stor y of Evolution in
Our Time” and a professor at the
Columbia School of Journalism,
Weiner described how his undy-
ing curiosity, fascination with biol-
ogy and love of writing propelled
him to reconcile science and the
Sidney Frank Hall’s LEED certification contributed to Brown’s leading A-minus grade.
commitment to reducing its green-
house gas emissions by 42 percent
below 2007 levels by 2020 — and
its achievement of a 7.7 percent re-
duction so far — as the basis for
the grade.
“Last year, we had goals,” Powell
said of emissions reductions. “This
year, we had results.”
The other improvement was seen
in the Endowment Transparency
category, which was given a C last
year and a B this year.
In the 2010 report, Brown re-
ceived only one other B, for Ad-
arts. In his book, Weiner discuss-
es Darwin’s theory of evolution
and the groundbreaking work of
Peter and Rosemary Grant.
“The Beak of the Finch” was
selected for the 2009 orientation
program First Readings. This is
the third year of the program, in
which freshmen and transfer stu-
dents receive a summer reading
assignment before they arrive on
campus. Students used the book
as a springboard to write intro-
ductory letters to their academic
advisors.
According to Dean of the Col-
lege Katherine Bergeron, this was
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— Professor of Geology Carle Pieters, on the significance of findings about the moon
ministration. In determining the
Administration grade, the Sustain-
able Endowments Institute awards
a sizable boost to schools that have
committed to carbon neutrality —
which Brown has not yet agreed
to do.
“Most schools that signed have
no clue how to achieve that goal,”
Powell said, explaining Brown’s de-
cision to forgo the commitment to
carbon neutrality. Instead, he said,
Brown set its own emissions reduc-
tion goal.
The Sustainable Endowments In-
UCS creates new category
for fundraising groups
By Suzannah Weiss
senior staf f writer
The Undergraduate Council of Stu-
dents passed a revision to its Code
of Operations Wednesday, allowing
for official recognition of student
groups whose primary purpose is
fundraising for off-campus organi-
zations.
Because the Student Activities
Fund comes out of students’ pock-
ets, student groups have not granted
official categorization of any kind
unless their efforts directly benefit
Brown students — as opposed to
external charities, for example.
“The money is meant to be spent
for students on campus and not just
“This will be a thing for textbooks.”
Max Monn / Herald
stitute relies on surveys distributed
to administrators and students to
compile information, and then makes
comparisons between schools based
on a list of 48 criteria. No school has
ever earned an A overall.
This year the surveys were far
longer and more detailed. But there
are still questions about the validity
of the letter grades.
“This needs to be taken with a
grain of salt,” Ari Rubenstein ’11,
one of emPower’s leaders, said. “If
we’re already at an A-, there must be
something higher than an A.”
to be filtered through off-campus
organizations,” said UCS Student
Activities Chair Brady Wyrtzen
’11. But the idea of adding a new
categor y for ser vice groups had
been percolating since last spring,
he said.
UCS has traditionally classified
student groups as Category I, II or
III. Category I encompasses most
new groups, granting little or no
financial support, while Category
II and III status provides major
clubs and organizations with sti-
pends from the Student Activities
Fund. Since last year, there has also
been Category A for club sports,
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fantasy for
researchers
realized
continued from page 1
images, they were able to provide
more concrete findings.
“It was a Christmas present,”
Nettles said.
“There is a whole field of sci-
ence that is in its infancy,” Pieters
said. Her team’s discovery has
opened up doors in the study of
how the surface of the moon and
other “solid, silicate, rocky bod-
ies” interact with their environ-
ments, she said.
“Water is a very important
component for long-term explo-
ration,” Pieters said. If found in
abundance, it can be used for fuel
by astronauts.
Crash goes
off without
a hitch
continued from page 1
After the initial rocket crashed
into the lunar crater to create
debris, a second spaceship car-
ried instruments developed by
Schultz, who was involved with
the mission from its earliest
stages, to collect data about the
debris.
The data will allow him to ana-
lyze how deep the crater was at
impact, how high the debris rose
and how fast it fell.
“All instruments worked well”
during the mission, he said, and
“enough data was collected.”
People hoping to glimpse the
lunar crash on Friday expressed
disappointment once it became
clear that plumes of debris from
the crash would not be visible
with backyard telescopes as
NASA had announced, accord-
ing to an article on CNN’s Web
site.
Brendan Hermalyn, a gradu-
ate student in planetar y sci-
ences working with Schultz
on the impact physics of the
crash, added that the analysis
will bring “unique insights out
of the data.”
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C ampus N EWS “It’s a hometown effort.”
— Jeff Prystowsky ’06 on The Low Anthem’s Providence show
spic y with - ouch ! Bikes, handbags,
birthday cake stolen
By Ben Schreckinger
Senior Staff Writer
The following summary includes all
major incidents reported to the De-
partment of Public Safety between
September 9 and September 29. It
does not include general service and
alarm calls. The Providence Police
Department also responds to incidents
CRIME LOG
occurring off campus. DPS does not
divulge information on cases that
are currently under investigation by
the department, PPD or the Office of
Student Life. DPS maintains a daily
Lara Press / Herald log of all shift activity and general ser-
Max Mathias ’10 helped another student with his flu shot during the seasonal clinic at Josiah’s.
vice calls which can be viewed during
business hours at its headquarters,
Alums play Avon homecoming show tonight
located at 75 Charlesfield St.
Sept. 9
11:27 p.m. Officers were dis-
By Ellen Cushing feat that took a little convincing. us out — WaterFire is providing patched to the Fish Company to
Senior Staf f Writer “It took a lot of work to get them the sound and lights; Trinity Bre- assist the Providence Police with
to agree with this,” he said of an ar- whouse is providing subsidized an investigation involving Brown
Eight years ago, as freshmen, Jeff rangement that has proven fruitful beers,” he said. “There were all students. Upon arrival they were
Pr ystowsky ’06 and Ben Miller despite the Avon’s lack of concert these problems, one after another, advised by Providence officers that
’06 were jazz DJs for WBRU’s infrastructure. and people stepped up from the two Brown students were involved in
graveyard-shift jazz show, 2:30- Getting over logistical issues community. It’s a hometown ef- an altercation with Fish Co. staff and
5:30 a.m. wasn’t the concert’s only hurdle: fort.” then with Providence officers. The
Now, years later, Pr ystowsky Due to a scheduling problem, all The band — which released its two students were arrested by the
and Miller — who, along with Jocie of the band’s instruments have third album, “Oh My God, Charlie Providence police and were being
Adams ’08, compose the folk trio Dar win,” last September — has charged with disorderly conduct.
The Low Anthem — have toured ARTS & CULTURE maintained a strong relationship Sept. 11
the world and amassed a fan base with Providence. 10:20 a.m. A student reported
far beyond College Hill. Tonight, already been shipped to Seattle Pr ystowksy and Miller began three handbags with a total value of
they will be returning home for a in advance of the band’s upcom- playing together during their first- over $6,000 stolen from her room in
show at the Avon. ing West Coast tour, Pr ystowsky year stint at WBRU in a variety Sears House. She had last noticed
Local bands Brown Bear and said. Despite the difficulties, he of groups and genres of music. the bags on Sept. 10 at 4 p.m. and
Death Vessel will be opening. said, friends of the band have lent They finally settled on a name and noticed them missing on Sept. 11
“It should be a really special instruments, and local establish- a sound and began playing shows at 9 a.m. The room door was left
show,” Pr ystowsky said, adding ments have offered their support. at the Underground and around unlocked.
that this will be the first live show The show will go on. 4:12 p.m. A student stated that
at the Avon in over a decade — a “All of our friends are helping continued on page 7 she had secured her mountain bike
to the bike rack at Graduate Center
Tower C on Sept. 6 at 8:50 a.m. She
stated that she went to retrieve her
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She stated that the way she attached
the bike may have left the bike vul-
nerable because if the handlebars
were removed the bike could be
freed without disturbing the lock.
Sept. 12
12:00 a.m. Officers responded
with Providence Police to 212 Wil-
liams Street after PPD received a
call about a loud party with revel-
ers filling the street. When Brown
police arrived, Providence officers
were already on scene and actively
dispersing the partygoers and clos-
ing down the party. Four renters of
the property, all Brown students,
were cited by PPD for violating the
noise ordinance.
Sept. 17
3:09 p.m. Student reported his
bicycle was taken from the bike
rack at Marcy House, and that he
was “pretty sure” he locked up the
bicycle with a cable lock on Sept.
16 at 7 p.m. When he returned on
Sept. 17 at 12 p.m., he noticed the
bicycle missing.
Sept. 18
2:26 p.m. Complainant reported
that half of her ice-cream birthday
Thursday, October 15, 2009
cake was stolen from a refrigera-
tor in a common area in Sidney
Frank Hall. The incident occurred
sometime between 3 p.m. on Sept.
17 and 2 p.m. on Sept. 18. She also
reported that other food items were
also stolen from the refrigerator in
that area in the past couple of days
and months prior, that belong to
other students that work in the labs
on that floor. The common area
room does not have a lock on that
door and access can be gained by
anyone.
Sept. 21
11:29 a.m. Student stated that
on Sept. 19 at approximately 5 p.m.
he left his backpack in the Sharpe
Refectory. He remembered at 11:30
p.m. that he left his backpack and
contacted DPS. Officers responded
and were unable to locate the back-
pack. On Sept. 20 he went back to
the Refectory and looked through
the lost-and-found but the back-
pack was not there. The backpack
contained a laptop, iTouch and one
book.
12:23 p.m. Student stated her
wallet was stolen from New Pem-
broke 4 on Sept. 16. She stated that
she was at a friend’s room with 15
other Brown students when her
wallet went missing. She searched
the room but could not locate the
wallet.
9:40 p.m. Student stated that at
approximately 9:40 p.m. she left her
room in Bronson House and went to
the laundry room. Her room door
was approximately three inches ajar
and the laundry room is 50 feet up
the corridor. When she returned
to her room approximately 10
minutes later, her laptop had been
stolen from her desk. The laptop
was unplugged and cords were left
behind. There are no witnesses or
suspects.
Sept. 23
8:30 a.m. An employee in Pem-
broke Hall reported that on Sept. 18
at 5 p.m. she noticed all the folding
tables on the ground floor level. On
Sept. 21 at 8:30 a.m. she noticed one
of the folding tables on wheels was
missing, and then on Sept. 23 at 8:30
a.m. she noticed another folding
table with wheels missing. There
are no witnesses or suspects.
Sept. 27
2:16 p.m. A resident counselor in
Bronson House reported that at 10
a.m. she noticed graffiti depicting
images of male genitalia and some
words drawn in black permanent
marker on a door of a room. She
stated that she waited until 2 p.m.
to speak with one of the residents of
the room to find out if there was any
reasoning behind the markings and
found there was not. Neither room-
mate wished to file a complaint. Fa-
cilities Management was notified of
the graffiti. There are no suspects
at this time.
Sept. 28
7:24 a.m. Facilities Manage-
ment employee reported five large
cement flower pots on Manning
Walkway were tipped over and one
pot with a value of $500 was found
broken.
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C ampus N EWS
Group honors classics
professor Konstan
continued from page 2
revolved around the history of emo-
tions in ancient Greek society.
Ancients provide modern people
with a “diverse and rich set of emo-
tions,” Konstan said.
The honor also comes as Konstan
nears retirement after more than 20
years on Brown’s faculty — Konstan
told The Herald on Tuesday that
he intends to retire from teaching
full-time at Brown at the end of this
academic year.
The induction of Konstan, one of
Brown’s best-known classicists, into
AAAS is “a great honor for Brown
classics,” said Bodel, who chairs the
department.
Bodel also had high praise for his
friend and colleague. “He’s really one
of the most dynamic figures in our
profession” as well as “a widely re-
spected scholar abroad,” he said. “He
is really quite a remarkable person.”
UCS passes resolution
for new group category
continued from page 3
which receive recognition but not
money, Student Activities Director
Phil O’Hara said.
The addition of Categor y S,
proposed last week and approved
by the UCS general body without
argument, allows clubs created for
the benefit of causes not related to
Brown to get all the University sup-
port of a Category I group except
for money.
These privileges include incor-
porating the school’s name into the
group title, using a mailbox and oth-
er resources in the Student Activi-
ties Office and having permission to
table-slip, said O’Hara, who met with
Wyrtzen and supported the UCS
Student Activities Committee.
Wyrtzen, who devised the pro-
posal along with the SAC, said the
code change “was definitely some-
thing that we wanted to get going
on as quickly as possible” because
the SAC already has had to turn
down fundraising groups requesting
categorization this fall.
One of those groups was Nour-
ish, a group whose mission is “to
fight global poverty” by supporting
“sustainable development projects,”
according to Carolyn Brown ’11,
who started a chapter of the club
on campus and said she hoped it
would be granted Category S status.
The advantages of formal Univer-
sity acknowledgment, Brown said,
include being allowed to reserve
room space and announcing events
through Morning Mail.
UCS President Clay Wertheimer
’10 said the addition of Category S
was “a smart solution.”
“There’s definitely some gray
space,” he said. Groups that in-
corporate teach-ins, lectures or
other ways of spreading awareness
around the community, he said, are
still eligible for Category I, II and
III status.
In addition to his academic
achievements, Konstan is “one of the
most active and engaging” teachers at
Brown, with “enormous energy (and)
enormous charisma,” Bodel said.
Election into the AAAS is a two-
step process that begins when current
members nominate individuals they
believe should be considered for elec-
tion. Nominated individuals are first
considered by peers in their discipline
“who consider their scholarship and
contributions to the field” and decide
whether to recommend induction,
said Paul Karoff, an AAAS spokesman.
Then the Academy’s members elect
each year’s class from the winnowed
group.
The induction ceremony, which
took place in Cambridge, Mass. over
the weekend, involved “speeches
(and) more speeches,” Konstan said.
“Everybody got up, shook hands,”
signed some papers, and were in-
ducted.
Brown said her group does not
need University funding because
the organization’s national office
provides it, but that if Nourish were
to receive a portion of the Student
Activities Fund, it would go toward
spreading awareness of world hun-
ger and recruiting student partici-
pants. “We weren’t trying to funnel
money directly from University re-
sources,” she said.
Whether or not the new catego-
rization will affect existing groups
is still up in the air, though Wyrtzen
said it probably will not. The pur-
pose of the code revision was “to
incorporate the groups that we’ve
had to turn away already,” he said,
adding that if there are categorized
groups that, upon reevaluation,
seem better suited for Category S,
“We might have to boot them.”
The debate over which groups
are eligible for University funding —
a “long, philosophical discussion,”
according to O’Hara — has been
present for decades, he said.
A challenge for UCS, O’Hara
added, is that because students
“only have four years,” it is “hard
for a student group to have a long
view.” Still, he said, the decision to
recognize fundraising organizations
will have a lasting impact, because
their role is “a long-term issue.”
— With additional
reporting by Kyla Wilkes
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Page 5
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
Jonathan Weiner, author of “The Beak of the Finch,” spoke to a crowd in Salomon 101 Wednesday night. The
science writer said he realized science writing was his niche after four years of poetry courses.
‘Beak of the Finch’ author speaks
continued from page 3 gos finches and watching natural “evolution in action” is especially
selection in action. The study was exciting because Dar win was so
the program’s “most successful renowned in biology but largely convinced that the process would
first reading yet,” adding “even the
non-scientists found themselves
unknown outside of the field.
“I lit up. This is my stor y!”
be impossible to see “by mortal
humans.”
captivated.” Weiner said. “It possessed me Maya Sikand ’13, who attend-
The spark of Weiner’s passion from the minute I heard it.” ed the lecture, said she appreci-
for scientific writing came during Still a young writer, Weiner ated how Weiner took evolution
his senior year at Classical High spent two years “wooing the out of the small example of the
School, which is in Providence. A Grants,” who were initially hesi- finches and applied it in a wider
visit to the library led to Weiner’s tant about the book. The Grants context.
discovery of an article in Scientific documented each step of Dar- William Donovan ’12 asked
American, “The Social Amoeba,” win’s argument about the Gala- Weiner whether he would do
by John Tyler Bonner, professor of pagos finches and the swing of anything differently if he had the
ecology and evolutionary biology a “pendulum” in favor of certain chance to return to Har vard.
at Princeton. beak sizes based on pressures of “I spent four years tr ying to
Weiner was captivated by the natural and sexual selection. crack the kind of seed I wasn’t
article, in which Bonner elegantly The Grants eventually agreed equipped to crack,” Weiner said.
tells a story of how amoebas come to work with Weiner, who said he “It was only when I realized that
together to form “fabulous towers” had fallen in love with the finches I actually loved the science and
in times of crises. Weiner decided and the evolutionar y process as the writing and I could put the
then that he had to write about much as the Grants and their stu- two together — it was then when
biology. dents had. Weiner said watching I found my way as a writer.”
Weiner eventually attended
Harvard, where he chose to study
writing over biology.
“Since now I was a poet, I now
had to hate science,” Weiner joked.
But despite four years of poetry
courses, he realized science writ-
ing was his niche. He launched his
science writing career with the es-
say “Marching Along with the So-
cial Amoeba,” which was published
in Har vard Magazine. Weiner’s
first book, “Planet Earth,” was a
companion book to the seven-part
PBS television series.
Struggling with writer’s block,
Weiner turned to Bonner, who
gave Weiner the idea of writing
about evolution and the work of
the Grants. They were involved
in a classic evolutionary study of
measuring the beaks of the Galapa-
Thursday, October 15, 2009 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
M etro
A Model for Regionalized Government? Rhode Island towns
consider sharing services
Rhode Island Fairfax County, Va.
By George Miller
Metro Editor
Rhode Island’s cities and towns,
their budgets tighter than ever, are
considering sharing services such
as fire departments and trash pickup
to save money.
With 39 cities and towns packed
into the nation’s smallest state, con-
solidation appeals to many, includ-
ing the state’s General Assembly,
George Miller, Jessica Calihan / Herald
Fairfax County in northern Virginia operates with one centralized government rather than distributed which has launched a commission
municipalities. Some point to it as a model for how the small state of Rhode Island could operate. to study the idea. Providence Mayor
David Cicilline ’83 is calling for state
legislation to pave the way for re-
1,050,788 Population
(July 2008) 1,015,302 gionalization.
The state commission met for
the first time last week, electing as
its chair State Sen. Lou DiPalma
Area MA’89 P’09, D-Dist. 12. DiPalma,
1,545 (sq. miles)
395 who introduced the bill that created
the commission, said the increased
efficiency and effectiveness from
$3.27 billion Budget $3.35 billion
shared services could provide a cru-
(FY ‘09) cial boost to cash-strapped towns.
“We can’t delay this any longer,”
he said.
Median Household DiPalma, a former member of
$52,755 $105,200 the Middletown town council, said
Income there will be no “one-size-fits-all”
solution, and that different services
may make sense to share statewide,
39 Local Governments 1 between just a few towns or not at all.
But he said he fully expects to put
Jessie Calihan / Herald forward concrete proposals when
the commission reports back to the
Senate in January.
DiPalma declined to comment
on any specific plans, saying the
commission will explore all options
but focus on “backroom” services,
such as public safety and tax assess-
ment, that don’t involve day-to-day
constituent interaction.
Consolidation is not a new idea in
the state, and DiPalma said the com-
mission will hear from communities
that have tried sharing services be-
fore. He wants to hear “the good, the
bad and the ugly,” he said.
Examples of towns sharing
services include the Government
Health Group of Rhode Island, a
health and dental insurance co-op
encompassing 15 cities and towns,
and the Bristol-Warren regional
school district, which consolidated
in 1993.
Sharon Ahern, speaking as act-
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ing town manager for Westerly last
week, said regionalization “makes
sense.” Each city and town manag-
ing its own departments “doesn’t
necessarily work to our fiscal ad-
vantage,” she said. “Certainly it’s
something we should be looking
into.”
Westerly has already acted to
consolidate the finance and recre-
ation departments of the town and
its school department, Ahern said.
At last week’s commission meet-
ing, members heard a presentation
from John Simmons, executive di-
rector of the Rhode Island Public
Expenditure Council, that outlined
examples of shared services from
the state and nationwide.
Simmons told The Herald that
interest in sharing services exists,
but the commission needs to decide
how best to implement it.
Meanwhile, Cicilline is pushing
for legislation to allow the creation
of a metropolitan fire district, police
district and public works district
that Providence would share with
Pawtucket, Cranston, Central Falls,
North Providence, East Providence
and Johnston.
The legislation will be filed dur-
ing the next session of the General
Assembly, which begins in Janu-
ary, said Karen Southern, Cicilline’s
press secretary. He is currently look-
ing for a sponsor, she said.
After receiving approval from the
state, Providence and its neighbors
could begin work on crafting the
districts, which could maximize city
services in tough economic times,
Southern said.
Some firefighter’s union officials
have expressed reservations about
the plan, citing high costs and call-
ing the proposal “political grand-
standing,” the Providence Journal
reported earlier this month.
But Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65
praised the proposal in a press re-
lease.
“This action by seven mayors of
our cities and towns is a step in the
right direction,” he said. “Perhaps
the magnitude of the financial chal-
lenges the state, and our cities and
towns, face will take these ideas
beyond discussion to meaningful
action.”
Metro
The Brown Daily Herald
State colleges raise tuition and fees again
By Anish Gonchigar
Staff Writer
The Rhode Island Board of Gover-
nors for Higher Education voted
last week to increase tuition and
fees at state public colleges for the
2010-2011 school year.
According to the Providence
Journal, in-state students at the
University of Rhode Island will pay
9.9 percent more next year, while
students at Rhode Island College will
pay 9 percent more, and students at
the Community College of Rhode Is-
land will face a 8.2 percent increase.
Room and board fees will increase
by about 5 percent at URI and RIC,
the Journal reported.
Tuition and fees at Rhode Island
state schools have been continually
increasing in the last few years. Fees
at the three colleges increased by
Alums to play Avon homecoming tonight
continued from page 4
Providence at venues such as the
Hot Club and Local 121.
“We did a lot on our own in
Providence in terms of building
what we have today,” Pr ystowsky
said.
All three band members studied
music at Brown — Adams joined
the band in 2007 when she was still
a senior — and Pr ystowsky said
their experiences at the University
shaped them as artists. “The pro-
fessors of music at Brown certainly
were influential, being people who
were serious about music.”
He also said the band — which
now lives together on the East Side
— was ver y much shaped by the
greater Providence arts commu-
nity.
“In terms of Providence, it’s
probably shaped us more not for
the content of our songs, per se,
and arrangement, but for being a
great community of artists here,”
Pr ystowsky said.
Pr ystowsky also said the art-
about 10 percent for this school
year, and overall tuition and fees
have catapulted since 2004 — 64
percent at URI, 75 percent at RIC
and 72 percent at CCRI, according
to the Journal.
But these tuition and fee increas-
es have not been met by similar in-
creases in income. According to the
Providence Journal, median family
income in Rhode Island only grew
by 11.3 percent between 2005 and
2008, making it increasingly difficult
for poor and working class families
to afford higher education.
Jane Fuscl, a spokesperson for
RIC, said the school does not enjoy
implementing these changes but has
no choice in the matter.
“No one, including administra-
tion and students, are happy when
there’s a tuition increase on the ho-
rizon,” she said.
ists’ community in Providence is
ver y collaborative, a quality that
fostered the group’s growth.
“It’s a small town, and you have
the Brown bands, but then you also
have these Providence bands that
help each other out and stay in
touch,” he said.
ARTS & CULTURE
“A lot of people at Brown don’t
realize it, but the city of Providence
has a lot of art going on,” Pr ys-
towsky added. “There’s a lot to the
city to explore, but people write it
off because it’s not Boston and it’s
not New York.”
After the show, Pr ystowsky,
Miller and Adams will be reunited
with their instruments in Seattle
for the West Coast tour, after which
they will begin a weeks’ worth of
shows in London and Holland, be-
fore heading back home to begin
recording a new album.
After touring with top song-
writers like Ray LaMontagne, per-
forming alongside the likes of Elvis
“The word’s gotten out that it’s a party district”
— Ward 5 Councilman Michael Solomon on “Red Cup” crackdown
Fuscl added that she hoped the
tuition hike would be coupled with
an increase in educational quality.
“Our mission is to provide afford-
able, quality education, and we hope
to stay in that realm of possibility for
our students,” Fuscl said.
Joshua Laguerre, student body
president at RIC, said an increase in
tuition and fees will be detrimental
for poorer students.
“RIC takes in a lot of first genera-
tion students,” Laguerre said, adding
that fewer low-income students will
be able to attend after the tuition
increase.
Laguerre said student demon-
strations will likely occur before the
bill passes.
“Don’t be surprised if there is
some kind of event or rally or some-
thing along those lines that takes
place in the spring,” he said.
Costello and playing high-profile
festivals that draw hundreds of
thousands of people, there is one
venue The Low Anthem has yet to
play: Spring Weekend.
“We’ve tried to play Spring
Weekend and they wouldn’t let us,”
Pr ystowsky said. He continued.
“I was like, ‘we’re playing Lolla-
palooza and Bonnaroo; can’t we
play Spring Weekend?’ And they
said no. We’ve been rejected the
past eight years.”
Thursday, October 15, 2009 | Page 7
metro in brief
Police effort cracks down on parties
“Operation Red Cup” may sound like the most epic
house party of all time, but it is in fact quite the opposite
— a full-scale effort by the city of Providence to crack down
on the raucous behavior of Providence College, Johnson
and Wales University and Rhode Island College students
carousing off campus in the Elmhurst neighborhood,
northwest of downtown.
Town-gown relations have been tense in the
neighborhood for years, said Ward 5 Councilman Michael
Solomon, a proponent of the crackdown. But in the last
several months, students’ drunken revelry has “really gotten
out of hand,” he said.
“I think what’s happened is that the word’s gotten out
that it’s a party district,” he said.
The parties have been getting rowdier because they have
been “drawing people from outside the area,” Solomon
said. In fact, police have “spotted a few high school
students” partying in the neighborhood.
“There’s never been a unified effort” to clean up the
neighborhood, Solomon said. But this most recent effort
brings together city government, law enforcement, the
students’ schools and landlords.
“I think when everybody gets together it’s going to be
easy to tackle the problem,” Solomon said.
Solomon said he believes the effort has already started
to send a message. He said 70 arrests have been made in
just three weeks.
The councilman has proposed a city ordinance that
would fine landlords — anywhere from $250 to $1,000
dollars — who do not evict tenants after three noise
complaints in a single year.
Providence Police have also begun reporting the
identities of misbehaving students to their respective
colleges. “Hopefully their parents are going to know,”
Solomon said.
PPD did not return multiple requests for comment.
— Ben Schreckinger
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S ports t hursday
Equestrian earns best in show
By Fred Milgrim
Contributing Writer
The equestrian riders took matters
into their own hands at their home
show this weekend with a strong
win, earning them first place in the
show as well as in the Region 1, Zone
1 season standings.
Brown’s tally of 43 points bested
URI’s 34 and UConn’s 32, bringing
their season total to 77, four points
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ahead of second place URI.
The competition began with the
Flat divisions. Because of Bruno’s
extremely strong day, Liz Gilib-
erti’s ’10 score in the Open Flat
was dropped, but she made up for
it later with a good ride in the Open
Fences.
Following Giliberti, Emma Bog-
donoff ’10, the pointed rider in Inter-
mediate Flats, took the blue ribbon
earning seven points for the Bears.
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Rebecca McGoldrick ’12 then won
in the Novice Flat for the second
straight week.
Entering the Fences with 14
points after a strong showing in the
Flats, Brown made an even stron-
ger statement, tallying 18 points.
Giliberti started off with a third
place finish in the Open division.
Rachel Griffith ’10 followed with
a first place as the pointed rider in
the Intermediates. Finally, Allison
Dungey ’13, who took second last
weekend, bettered her performance
with a blue ribbon and added seven
more points to the Bears’ total. En-
tering the final three divisions, the
Bears had a total of 32 points, only
two shy of last week’s total.
Marisa Fuerst ’12 rode a horse
that was less than cooperative, but
still managed to take third place
in the Walk-Trot-Canter — good
for four more points. Rebecca de
Sa ’10 ended the day on a positive
note, once again taking first for the
Bears in Walk-Trot.
The only home competition of
the year was a success, with beau-
tiful weather all day. Nevertheless,
it was a hectic day, as the riders all
had hosting responsibilities outside
of their own competitions.
The Bears will be back in ac-
tion on Halloween at Connecticut
College.
Men’s water polo swims
to one win — and a loss
By Liza Jones
Contributing Writer
While much of the student body
relaxed over the long weekend,
the men’s water polo team trav-
eled to Massachusetts to face
Har vard and Iona. After a 15-8
win against Harvard on Saturday,
the team fell to Iona the following
day, 10-9.
Against the Crimson, the
Bears had complete control in
the water from the beginning of
the game, leading 3-2 after eight
minutes. The second quarter was
just as successful, as Bruno took
a 9-2 lead. Har vard scored three
goals to Brown’s two in the third
quarter, but the Bears picked it
up again to outscore Har vard,
4-3, in the final quarter to seal
the 15-8 win.
On the offensive end, Sveto-
zar Stefanovic ’13 lived up to his
recent title as CWPA Northern
Division Rookie of the Week by
leading the team with five goals
on Saturday. Gordon Hood ’11
added three goals, Ryan Gla-
dych ’13 scored two, while Zach
Levko ’10, Corey Schwartz ’11,
Dean Serure ’13 and Cyrus Moj-
dehi ’13 each contributed one.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Defensively, Kent Holland ’10
kept up his impressive stats in
goal with seven saves in the first
three quarters, and Max Lubin
’12 saved three after taking over
for Holland in the final quarter.
After the impressive win over
the rival Crimson, the Bears lost
to the Iona Gaels, 10-9, in a close
game on Sunday. Brown had an
impressive lead through most
of the game, including a five-
goal lead in the beginning of
the third quarter. But the Gaels
were not fazed, as they rallied
to a narrow 10-9 victor y in the
fourth. The game-winning goal
for Iona was scored during a pen-
alty shot with just four seconds
left on the clock, costing Bruno
its first regular season Nor th-
ern Division loss in two years.
Stefanovic was again the team’s
leading scorer with three goals.
Gladych and Hood each scored
two, while Serure and Schwartz
each scored one.
Even with this loss hanging
over their heads, the Bears were
still able to defeat Connecticut
College, 22-8, on Tuesday. Bruno
will travel back to Connecticut
College to face Queens (N.Y.)
and Mercyhurst on Saturday.
SportsThursday
The Brown Daily Herald
Men’s soccer, unbeaten, keeps rolling
By Katie Wood
Assistant Sports Editor
The No. 15 men’s soccer team (7-0-
4, 2-0-0 Ivy) continued its winning
streak with a 4-2 victory over Princ-
eton on Saturday and a 3-1 win over
Rutgers on Tuesday night. Four
different Bears scored goals in the
two contests, including two goals
each from Sean Rosa ’12 and Nick
Elenz-Martin ’10.
Brown 4, Princeton 2
The game against Princeton was
very offensive-minded on both sides,
similar to the Sept. 30 Boston Univer-
sity game that ended in a 3-3 tie. The
Bears were led by Rosa, the reign-
ing Ivy League Player of the Week,
who contributed the first two goals
of the game, and is now tied with
Austin Mandel ’12 and Elenz-Martin
as the leading goal scorer on the
team with four.
“We did OK but didn’t play to our
full potential,” said Ian Smith ’11.
The Bears came out ready to play,
as Rosa scored in the game’s open-
ing minutes on a pass to the middle
of the box from Mike Manella ’12,
nailing the ball to the lower right
corner at the post.
The Tigers and the Bears played
evenly through the next 30 minutes
of play before Brown put together
several strong offensive opportu-
nities in the closing 10 minutes of
the half. Jay Hayward ’12 and Rosa
passed the ball back and forth to one
another, away from their defenders,
and were almost too unselfish as an
extra pass ended the drive with sev-
en minutes left. Taylor Gorman ’12
crossed a ball to a cutting TJ Thomp-
son ’10 in front of the goal with five
minutes remaining in the half, but
this drive was also stopped by Princ-
eton, as the ball was deflected out by
the defense.
The Tigers extinguished Brown’s
opportunities in the closing minutes
of the first half, but the Bears came
out just as offensive-minded in the
opening minutes of the second.
“Our coach (Mike Noonan) gave
us a fiery pep talk in the locker room
and we came out with a renewed
mindset,” Smith said. “We made a
few adjustments and the goals came
with it.”
Thompson crossed the ball over
to Rosa, who opened the second
with a rocket from the 20-yard line,
a common spot in Rosa’s goal-scoring
resume this season. A mere 20 sec-
onds later, the set-up man for the
night, Thompson, sent a cross from
the right corner to a cutting Elenz-
Martin, who connected on a header
for his third goal of the season.
“We were ecstatic,” Smith said.
“Teams react dif ferently when
they’re down and can let the game
slip away. But Princeton never gave
up, and we knew they wouldn’t.”
The Tigers responded immedi-
ately with a rally, as Matt Sanner
scored on a header that floated over
goalkeeper Paul Grandstrand ’11 and
into the right corner of the net.
Jay Hayward ’12 extended
Brown’s lead in the 64th minute when
Rosa was fouled hard by a Princeton
defender, giving Hayward a free kick
from 35 yards out on the right side
of the field. Hayward placed the ball
perfectly over the three defenders
who established a wall in front of
him. The ball curved nicely into the
right corner of the net, notching
Hayward’s first career goal for the
Bears. Hayward became the 11th
player on the team to score a goal
this season.
“The biggest part about staying
in the lead was keeping the connec-
tion and communicating on defense,”
Smith said. Princeton “created some
chaos when they brought more play-
ers up for offensive opportunities,
but we also had our own advantage
when we sent the ball to the opposite
side of the field for our own scoring
chances.”
The referees called a foul in the
penalty box on the Bears in the 69th
minute, which led to a penalty kick
by Brandon Busch, who sent the
ball to the back of the net to pull
the game to within two. But Brown
squelched the Princeton rally in the
game’s final 20 minutes and emerged
victorious, 4-2.
Grandstrand (6-0-4) recorded
five saves in the contest, while
Princeton’s Sean Lynch recorded
one save of the five shots on goal
by the Bears.
Smith returned to the starting
Thursday, October 15, 2009 | Page 9
line-up for the first time this season
after coming off a broken foot suf-
fered during pre-season training. He
was an integral part of the defense
that prevented the Tigers from get-
ting too close to the Bears on Satur-
day night.
“It was great to get back out there,
but I was a little rusty,” Smith said. “It
was great to get back in the line-up
and fight out there with the guys.”
Brown 3, Rutgers 1
The Bears hoped to extend their
winning streak Tuesday night in a
tough non-conference battle against
the Biga East’s Rutgers (5-7-0).
The Scarlet Knights and the
Bears came out hot in the first half,
as each team tallied over 10 shots.
Rutgers capitalized on offense first
in the 18th minute, when Ibrahim
Kamara sent a header into the goal
past Jarrod Schlenker ’10, who start-
ed in goal for the Bears for the first
time in his career. Schlenker and
the defense tightened up and denied
several scoring drives to keep the
Bears in the game.
Rosa sent a pass to Thompson,
who once again set up a goal for
Elenz-Martin in the 37th minute of
the half. The Bears finished out the
first half with the momentum headed
in their direction that would carry on
into the second half.
Hayward lined up for a corner Herald File Photo
The Bears earned their seventh win over Rutgers Tuesday, 3-1. The team,
kick in the 62nd minute and sent a ranked 15th nationally, has not yet lost a game this season.
perfect ball right at the goal to Evan
Coleman ’12. Coleman headed the en saves to pace the defense that last night.
ball to Thomas McNamara ’13, who allowed one goal on 20 attempted “With each game we play, we’re
connected on another header for the shots. looking to solidify things,” Smith
go-ahead goal. McNamara led Brown Brown travels to No. 6 Harvard said. “We definitely wanted to stay
with five shots on the night, three of (8-2-1, 1-0-1 Ivy) on Saturday for its on the winning side of things against
which were on goal. third Ivy League match of the year. Rutgers. Our team has confidence
With only a one-goal lead, the Harvard nearly fell at Cornell on and some momentum after several
Bears kept the pressure on the Saturday, fighting out a 1-1 tie, and positive results heading into our
Scarlet Knights and put together is seeking to bounce back from a match against Harvard on Satur-
several more scoring drives in the 0-4 loss against No. 17 Connecticut day.”
games closing 30 minutes. Manella
beat his defender in the 70th minute
but fell to the ground on a hard hit
by goalkeeper Alex Morgans that
was not called a foul by the referee.
Co-captain David Walls ’11 followed
right behind Manella and put the ball
away for a two-goal lead the Bears
maintained to secure the 3-1 win.
Schlenker earned his first career
win in goal with an outstanding sev-
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evan donahue and erik stayton

e d i to r i a l
What’s on your mind? Effect on target
Write it in a letter! Brown’s administration, like any other, has its
successes and its failures, and it deser ves to be
ation of departmental choices.
The most tempting use of Target of Opportu-
congratulated for the creation and continued im- nity is to stock the faculty with big names such as
opinions@browndailyherald.com provement of the Target of Opportunity hiring Achebe. But no department can run on star power
program. alone. While the program has been well-utilized to
The initiative, a part of President Ruth Simmons’ date, Department Chair and Professor of Histor y
Plan for Academic Enrichment, allows departments Omer Bartov has rightly suggested that target-of-
to request new faculty on an accelerated timetable opportunity hiring could enable an unhealthy shift
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d
outside of the normal hiring cycle. Twenty of the in faculty composition.
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editors Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors
25 slots devoted to the program under the Plan Some departments could end up with an excess
Steve DeLucia Michael Bechek Nandini Jayakrishna Rachel Arndt
Chaz Firestone Franklin Kanin Isabel Gottlieb are currently occupied, but while overall hiring is of senior professors; while each field has its own
Michael Skocpol Scott Lowenstein slowing down, the Target positions will become balance to strike between junior and senior faculty,
editorial Business available for new hires if their current occupants an imbalance is an inherent risk of the flexibility
Ben Hyman Arts & Culture Editor General Managers Office Manager
Rosalind Schonwald Arts & Culture Editor Alexander Hughes Shawn Reilly leave the University. targeting provides. And unreasonably high turnover
Sophia Li Features Editor Jonathan Spector Target of Opportunity hiring has already proven rates from sought-after professors exploring other
George Miller Metro Editor
Joanna Wohlmuth Metro Editor
its worth in full and has made great strides since options could undermine the reliability and long-
Directors
Seth Motel News Editor Ellen DaSilva Sales its inception. The most celebrated new professor term planning required to maintain high-quality
Jenna Stark News Editor Claire Kiely Sales brought in through the program is the Nigerian research and instruction.
Andrew Braca Sports Editor Katie Koh Finance
Han Cui Asst. Sports Editor Jilyn Chao Asst. Finance writer Chinua Achebe. If the administration continues to carefully moni-
Alex Mazerov Asst. Sports Editor Christiana Stephenson Alumni Relations But not all targeted hires are world-renowned tor trends in the requests under the program, keep-
Katie Wood Asst. Sports Editor
luminaries. Outstanding junior faculty are also ing in mind the widely var ying priorities of the
Graphics & Photos Managers among the fast-tracked new arrivals, including departments, the potential downsides of Target
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some talented women assistant professors in the of Opportunity are unlikely to emerge.
Eunice Hong Photo Editor Alex Carrere University Sales physical sciences, according to Dean of the Faculty The average student enjoys the luxur y of being
Kim Perley Photo Editor Matt Burrows Credit and Collections Rajiv Vohra P’07. Without the program, they might able to simultaneously revere Ruth individually and
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well have been snapped up by our peer institutions; vociferate against the administration generally. But
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Ayelet Brinn Copy Desk Chief Alyssa Ratledge Opinions Editor instead, they will help make Brown a leader in target-of-opportunity hiring, shepherded by a group
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Opinions
The Brown Daily Herald
A plea for the removal of strings
BY MIKE JOHNSON
Opinions Columnist
I may be naive to hope that alumni still read
tTe Brown Daily Herald in its online format
on a regular basis, but perhaps members of
the nefarious Corporation or our esteemed
President still find time to peruse these pages,
because as classes resume, exams loom and
the leaves change color, quibbles over money
begin once more.
Let me begin by saying I sincerely hope
that the University and the members of Brown
Dining Services can find common ground.
Yes, I realize that the economy ravaged our
endowment, but that does not mean we can
take it out on those who work here.
On the other hand, while the University
cannot visit its endowment woes on its em-
ployees, the fact remains that those who make
more can afford to help those who make less
acquire health insurance. The debate raises
an interesting issue regarding how students
see the University’s allocation of funds, and
how anyone can pursue multi-million-dollar
renovation projects while charging its em-
ployees more for health insurance.
The University’s hands are tied most of
the time. Brown’s budget isn’t one big pot;
rather, it’s a small pot, with various soup
bowls, salad bowls, chafing dishes, cook-
ie sheets, deep fryers, and roasting pans
scattered all around. These miscellaneous
kitchen apparatus are all earmarked for spe-
cific projects. Recent ones include the Sid-
For the love of animals, and of meat
BY FATIMA AQEEL
Opinions Columnist
It is somewhat strange that I can never as-
sociate a cooked chicken on my plate with
a walking, clucking chicken that I would
otherwise never hurt with my own hands.
It just doesn’t inspire the same warm fuzzy
feeling. No doubt, organizations like Peo-
ple for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
and Brown Animal Rights Club have come
across many people like me, and dealing
with us is one of their big challenges.
Plenty of people love animals but still
eat meat. So what does that make us: hypo-
crites, confused or just plain normal?
I’m not sure how other people deal with
it (or if they do at all). But I know that I have
felt guilty about eating meat, especially at
times when I’ve had fewer problems in life.
When I first came to Brown, for example,
and felt that fantastic feeling that every-
thing is possible, my guilt made me reduce
my meat intake gradually until I was eating
no meat at all. It lasted for about a month
and a half. Sure, everything was still pos-
sible, but it was made considerably harder
in the face of chicken finger Fridays at the
V-dub.
The part that I felt worst about was that
my re-conversion to omnivorism wasn’t be-
cause of a health or nutrition concern which
would, in a way, legitimize my relapse. Rath-
er, it was purely because I’d been eating
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ney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences, the Ste-
phen Robert ’62 Campus Center, the Cre-
ative Arts Center and the Jonathan Nelson
’77 Aquatics Center. All of these projects
have been either partly or entirely funded
by donors.
But donations with strings attached
aren’t unique to building construction. Any-
one who receives a “named scholarship”
from the University is a recipient of such a
donation. These are earmarked for finan-
cial aid purposes, based on certain criteria
Brown’s budget isn’t one big pot; rather, it’s a
small pot, with various soup bowls, salad bowls,
chafing dishes, cookie sheets, deep fryers and
roasting pans.
set down by the donor. These donations are
actually a critical part of the University’s
“Boldly Brown” Campaign for Academic
Enrichment. Yet even though the campaign
reached its goal of $1.4 billion last May, it
remains a critical part of helping Brown
weather the economic crisis and continue to
excel.
The Brown Annual Fund helps provide fi-
nancial aid and research opportunities, and
establishes professorships and classes. Gifts
into this fund are deposited into the endow-
meat all my life, and, un-PC as it sounds, I
think it tastes rather nice, actually.
In an effort to reconcile my love of ani-
mals with my love of juicy, juicy hamburg-
ers, I made my way to the volunteers who
manned the PETA stalls on the Main Green
recently. In response to my questions they
asked me to imagine how I would feel if my
own pet cats were shredded to pieces like
some of the animals I ate were. It wasn’t
People should be allowed to contribute what they
can without being judged for what they decide
not to renounce.
hard to do, with all those graphic images
around me of animals being butchered and
maltreated in every possible way.
But I can’t expect to have the same kind
of bond that I have with my pets with ev-
ery other animal out there, and so it didn’t
really help make the connection between
cooked animals and live ones.
Obviously, PETA might ask what the
point of my caring about animals is when
I’m going to eat them anyway.
Yet ironically, being eaten is not where
the struggle ends for most animals, because
there are plenty of other animal rights is-
Thursday, October 15, 2009 | Page 11
ment. Every year, the principal remains in
the endowment funds, while the investment
returns on that principle are spent. In es-
sence, the Annual Fund helps expand the
academic opportunities at Brown. Accord-
ing to the Annual Fund’s Web site, 120 gifts
of just $25 dollars helped establish an Un-
dergraduate TRA. Fifty gifts of $50 helped
a doctoral student stay on campus during
the summer. These gifts, and other Annual
Fund spending, helped fund education di-
rectly, helping to pay for tuition, health in-
surance and other costs.
As members of the Brown community,
we should all be grateful for the gifts that
generous donors provide us. But perhaps it
isn’t such a bad idea for donors to reanalyze
the types of gifts to give in this economic cli-
mate. Which will help the University more:
one fancy new building or financial aid for
400 students?
Our endowment took a fairly substantial
hit during the stock market crash last year;
of the $2.78 billion dollars we started with,
sues.
One of these is that the meat we eat is
produced and processed using highly ques-
tionable means. For example, PETA’s own
Web site publicizes how Kentucky Fried
Chicken stuffs chickens into filthy, over-
crowded factories, and then drugs them so
that they grow large, so large in fact that
they can’t even walk. This is obviously done
to cater to the demands of a form of con-
sumerism that is going out of control. But
not only is this practice bad for animals, it is
harmful for us as well.
The Web site cited the fact that KFC slits
chickens’ throats and drops them into hot
water while they may still be conscious.
Yes, the chickens will surely die, but there
is no reason for them to be in pain while
still alive.
Also, while plenty of people would agree
that eating meat is justified, they would also
agree that devouring the copious amounts
of meat (and everything else too) that we
do now is not okay. This over-consumption
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we emerged with just $2.04 billion, a loss of
$740 million in market value. If $3,000 equals
an UTRA, imagine what could have been ac-
complished with a direct infusion of $25 mil-
lion dollars — an amount equal to the dona-
tion required for the Swim Center — into
the Brown Annual Fund.
Granted, donating money into the Annual
Fund or into the endowment directly doesn’t
get one immortalized in stone, or named on
a plaque in a prominent place. But it does
have the added benefit of helping students
come here, to one of the best universities in
the world, to learn.
The knowledge they gain while at Brown
could one day cure deadly epidemics, or pre-
vent them from even occurring: could put
a man on Mars, or could help develop the
next great novelist of our time. The Universi-
ty isn’t suffering alone; students and faculty
and their families struggle to pay the bills.
A direct infusion of cash could revolutionize
Brown’s financial aid policy, making an Ivy
League education an achievable and realis-
tic dream for students of all economic back-
grounds.
So while it’s unlikely that our generous,
esteemed and privileged alumni still peruse
these pages, I humbly hope that just one will
forego earmarking a building with his or her
name attached, and help finance an educa-
tion — help finance a future.
Mike Johnson ’11 thinks the corporation
should buy 2.038 billion scratch-off
tickets: one has to hit it big.
makes us bigger than we need to be, leads
to global warming issues and inevitably
causes us to waste food. Any student who
eats at the Ratty is probably shocked by the
quantities of meat thrown away every day,
like I am. This meat comes from animals
killed for no reason at all.
As somebody who cares about animals
and the planet, I could help advance PETA’s
campaigns for all these causes — if only
they wanted me.
Like any organization seeking major so-
cial change, PETA needs popular support,
and so it should allow people to contrib-
ute what they can without being judged for
what they decide not to renounce. As long
as they help alleviate the conditions of an-
imals in one way or another, they should
feel a part of the animals rights movement,
because they are still making a difference.
And it should be okay if I turn up to a BARC
meeting and eat a chicken patty, as long as I
am helping the organization in another big
way.
In the end, eating meat remains contro-
versial. But animal rights groups shouldn’t
waste the goodwill of potential supporters
of other animal rights issues. In asking ev-
eryone to do something as drastic as giving
up meat, these groups may just be losing
whatever support many people can give.
Fatima Aqeel ’12 is an economics concen-
trator from Karachi, Pakistan. She can be
reached at fatima_aqeel@brown.edu.
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